InfoPoint conference: Advancing African Continental Integration in Higher education: building trust through better quality
20 March 2023, 15:00 CET - 20 March 2023, 16:30 CET
Africa's development highly relies on higher education and research systems that play a key role in knowledge-based economic growth strategies. The HAQAA initiative – Harmonisation, Accreditation and Quality Assurance in African Higher Education - was conceived in 2014 as an EU cooperation project with Africa based on the idea that “Higher education” has a particularly important role to play in enhancing citizenship and democratic values as well as providing a country with the skilled workers, managers and administrators that will foster sustainable development and encourage the trade and investment needed.
InfoPoint conference: Migration- Team Europe Initiatives in Africa
17 March 2023, 14:00 CET - 17 March 2023, 16:00 CETThe
Team Europe Initiatives on Migration in Africa, namely the Team Europe Initiative on the Atlantic/Western Mediterranean route (AWMed TEI) and the Team Europe Initiative on the Central Mediterranean route (Central Med TEI) are an integral part of the EU’s Comprehensive Migration Approach. They aim at strengthening coordination, coherence and complementarities of actions funded by the EU and by EU MS on migration and forced displacement along those migration routes. Their main objective is to ensure that migration between and within continents is safe, regular and orderly.
CSD on EU-Africa trade and investment relations
17 March, 2023 from 10:00 to 12:00
Online
The aim of this meeting is to discuss with EU civil society the latest developments in EU-Africa trade and investment relations and exchange views on EU trade and investment policy in Africa.
InfoPoint conference: Artificial intelligence for boosting investment in infrastructures and entrepreneurship in Africa (Report)
On Wednesday 09 of 2023, the InfoPoint Hybrid Conference: "Artificial intelligence for boosting investment in infrastructures and entrepreneurship in Africa" took place in Brussels.
Africa’s future food systems
8 Feb 2023, at 16:00
Brussels and Online
Africa’s food systems face the interlinked challenges of conflict, climate change and Covid-19. Right now, at least 130 million people across Africa are in crisis levels of food insecurity.
But the continent is also full of opportunities: Africa’s food systems will be transformed by its youth and urbanisation, its uncultivated arable land, availability of indigenous knowledge, and its expanding food economy.
Aftermath of war in Europe - The West vs. the Global South (Report)
On February 15th, the ECDPM hosted the presentation of the book “Aftermath of war in Europe - The West vs. the Global South” which takes into consideration the Global South’s perspective on the global “polycrisis” spurred by Covid-19, climate change, and inflation brought by the war in Ukraine.
EU trade, investment and development diplomacy in a fragmented world: The SDGs and the Global Gateway (Report)
On February 8, ECDPM hosted a public discussion on “EU Trade, Investment and Development Diplomacy in a fragmented world: The SDGs and the Global Gateway” revolving around potential tensions and complementarities between EU trade, developmental and investment policies focusing on the SDGs and the Global Gateway.
InfoPoint hybrid conference: Advancing Africa-Europe digital cooperation through knowledge sharing (Report)
On January 26th it took place the Infopoint hybrid conference: Advancing Africa- Europe digital cooperation through knowledge sharing. Hans Stausboll, the Acting Director for Africa, DG INTPA, started by giving a welcoming speech and briefly introducing the D4D access project. He stated that throughout the Covid19 pandemic, we learned that digital transformation has accelerated in many spheres and therefore there is a need to start adapting to the new reality. He mentioned that human-centric digital transformation is one of the objectives of the Global Gateway strategy and it has become one of their key goals for the AU-EU partnership. He specified that the D4D Access platform focus on 4 interlink priorities areas of that collectivity, skills, governance, and entrepreneurship. He also added that the platform currently has 70 different knowledge from more than 20 different organizations.
6ème Edition de l'Africa Investment Forum & Awards
7 FÉVRIER 2023
HÔTEL INTERCONTINENTAL PARIS LE GRAND, FRANCE
La 6ème édition de l'Africa Investments Forum & Awards, organisée par le groupe Leaders League - Décideurs Magazine, aura lieu le 7 février 2023 prochain dans un nouveau lieu : l'hôtel InterContinental Paris Le Grand.
L'entrepreneuriat agricole privé en Afrique et son financement
3 février 2023, 14h-17h
Centre de conférences Pierre Mendès France
Ministère de l'Économie, des Finances et de la Souveraineté industrielle et numérique
139 rue de Bercy
75012 Paris
Hybride
Cette conférence s'inscrit dans les activités de la Chaire de la Ferdi "Politiques de modernisation agricole en Afrique".
Elle vise à illustrer la question du financement des entreprises agricoles africaines au moment où les pouvoirs publics français, sous la pression des acteurs économiques, élaborent les contours d'un instrument / guichet adapté aux enjeux du secteur et aux besoins de ses opérateurs privés.
Les intervenants partageront leur témoignage et leur vécu et formuleront les pistes à explorer pour permettre à l’agriculture africaine de relever enfin le défi de la sécurité alimentaire dans un environnement économique viable, tout en améliorant les conditions de vie de ses acteurs et en préservant les ressources naturelles.